Thursday Bram

By using your Google Profile, you can make yourself easier to find as well as choose how people can contact you when they’re looking for you online. You can also get better search rankings for your name than you might otherwise be able to manage.

With the right font, you can create a perfect invitation for any event you’re planning. Whether you’re inviting co-workers to a professional event or you’re planning a wedding, putting together an impressive invitation is just a matter of finding the right typeface.

When the opening credits for some movies start scrolling, you can tell instantly what you’re watching, without even knowing the name of the show. The easily identified fonts from shows can be perfect if you’re working on a desktop publishing project where you need to create a certain feeling.

Scrapbook stores and catalogs are full of stickers, pages, and other supplies printed with phrases in cool fonts. As long as you have a few fonts of your own, you can create your own scrapbooking supplies — maybe even better ones.

Sometimes you just need a typeface that looks like it came straight off of the poster for a horror film. Whether you’re putting together a Halloween fright night or a poster of your own, finding free fonts that will scare your socks off can be tough. These four can get you started.

Whether you’re working on a desktop publishing project for a Jewish holiday or you just want an Israeli feel, a font inspired by the Hebrew alphabet can help create the right design. While Hebrew letters are different than Latin letters, there are a number of fonts designed with Hebrew in mind.

There are plenty of templates out there that make designing a flyer for your small business easy—but finding the right fonts to use on your flyer can be harder. The typefaces are important: people must be able to read your flyer but you don’t want to use boring fonts that won’t catch readers’ eyes.

When you have a project involving Arabic themes, it can be hard to find the right typeface: Arabic uses a very different alphabet, which may not be understood by your audience. But an Arabic-inspired font can be easy to read while still bringing a Middle East touch to your desktop publishing.

Something as simple as the fonts you use for business letters, brochures, and other business materials can play a big role in how professional your company looks. If you put a font policy into place, you can be sure that your fonts make your business look bigger.

With the holidays coming up, you may have a few desktop publishing projects in mind with a winter theme — but that aren’t actually religious. Finding secular winter fonts can be a little difficult, but there are some good free typefaces out there that may be perfect for your project.

Picking a font for a desktop publishing project involves more than just finding a typeface that matches the style of your project. Being aware of what you need in a font can speed up the time it takes to install a font and finish your project.

Need a little of the Wild West in your desktop publishing projects? There are more than a few typefaces that offer the chance to get your readers thinking of cowboys. These free fonts will introduce you to your options.

An initial font provides particularly ornate characters that can be used in desktop publishing projects to highlight specific letters or start a paragraph. If you’ve ever seen a book where the first letter of a chapter is extra-large and decorative, you’ve seen an initial typeface.

Whether you’re working on a project about Japan or you’ve got a Chinese-themed event, having access to Asian-styled fonts can help you complete your desktop publishing projects. These free fonts can provide you with a starting point for finding Asian type fonts.

Stencil fonts can add a certain feeling to a desktop publishing project: depending on just what typeface you choose, a stencil font can either make your project look very official or entirely the opposite. There are hundreds of free stencil fonts available, but these four can give you a good start.

Using multiple fonts is easy with desktop publishing software—almost too easy! Making sure that your fonts match is a must, if only to make sure that your target audience gets all the information out of your project as they can.